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Existing retail internationalization research, which has been theorized for innovative retail internationalization originating in developed countries, is insufficient for explaining the internationalization behavior of retailers originating in emerging countries, which have relatively fewer competitive advantages. Therefore, this study suggests new analytical concepts and future research directions for analyzing the internationalization behavior of retailers from developing countries entering China. This study adopted the value network concept for retailers and proposed the retail value network concept as a retailer-specific commercial transaction network to analyze ethnic Chinese retailers from developing countries. This study also suggests the need for studies on how the ethnic Chinese business network affects the formation of the retail value network as an avenue for future research.
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Cho, M., Wang, S. (2021). The Gap Between Theory and Reality in Retail Internationalization Research in China: An Analytical Perspective and Future Research Directions. In: Kantola, J.I., Nazir, S., Salminen, V. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 267. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80876-1_25
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